[bgill]

Of course it’s fixed. It’s always been fixed.

[Happy Rain]

Matt Damon plays a lot of intelligent men in his movies...

...best damn actor that ever lived.

[lurk]

Let’s be glad Mr Damon’s political wishes are not coming true. He leans a little to the left of Fidel Castro.

[Perkalong]

“Blame for the forthcoming economic pain should be placed squarely on President Obama’s shoulders. Sure, he had bipartisan help for some of his cliff creation, but as President and the guy who promised to change Washington, he owns the outcome.”

But, guess what?

The Republicans (and Bush) are going to get the blame for the economy! Most Americans believe that Bush and Republican policies led to the 2008 economic crisis that was the worst since the Great Depression, and in November 2008, most Americans chose not to return to those policies.

Just like the blame for the Great Depression was hung on the Republican Party for two generations, so too will blame for the current economic situation.

[ILS21R]

>>“It’s easier now more than ever in my life to feel the fix is in, the game is rigged and no matter how hard you work to change things, it just doesn’t matter.”<<

It’s not your fault.

[TArcher]

Here's a lead role for ya Matster - you'd be perfect for the part:

"The "idiot," I have said, is at times close to that boundary line where every idea and its opposite are recognized as true. That is, he has an intuition that no idea, no law, no character or order exists that is true and right except as seen from one pole – and for every pole there is an opposite pole. Settling upon a pole, adopting a position from which the world is viewed and arranged, this is the first principle of every order, every culture, every society and morality. Whoever feels, if only for an instant, that spirit and nature, good and evil are interchangeable is the most dangerous enemy of all forms of order. For that is where the opposite order is, and there chaos begins.

A way of thought that leads back to the unconscious, to chaos, destroys all forms of human organization. In conversation someone says to the "idiot" that he only speaks the truth, nothing more, and that this is deplorable. So it is. Everything is true, "Yes" can be said to anything. To bring order into the world, to attain goals, to make possible law, society, organization, culture, morality, "No" must be added to the "Yes," the world must be separated into opposites, into good and evil. However arbitrary the first establishment of each "No," each prohibition, may be, it becomes sacrosanct the instant it becomes law, produces results, becomes the foundation for a point of view and system of order.

The highest reality in the eyes of human culture lies in this dividing up of the world into bright and dark, good and evil, permissible and forbidden.

For Myshkin the highest reality, however, is the magical experience of the reversibility of all fixed rules, of the equal justification for the existence of both poles.

The Idiot, thought to its logical conclusion, leads to a matriarchy of the unconscious and annihilates culture. It does not break the tables of the law, it reverses them and shows their opposites written on the back."

--Thoughts on The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
--Hermann Hesse, 1919
http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/hesse/works/idiot.pdf

 

 

[VideoDoctor]

"If things don't change, they'll stay the same." /s

[ballplayer]

Most People Here on this site already know That Obama had No intentions of Cooperating on Sensible Reforms other than Transforming the United States into a Marxist Paradise.
The surprising thing is that Republicans as a whole REFUSE to make a Case,and as this article states,no one challenges Obama on anything,He makes statements on issues that Hours or days or weeks ago he made the exact opposite of.
The Rinos in the party are destroying the Hope of any opposition,they are cowards and only want to perpetuate the Country club down there. Unfortunately unless the Conservatives gain some sort of Power we are all screwed.

[fightu4it]

Damon has arrived at his Epiphany a little late in the dance. Could it be possible that he is not a student of history?

___

[Red Badger]

“We’ve always been at war with Eastasia, Matt”; .........

[count-your-change]

Matt thinks the game is rigged? Clever fellow that Matt.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Is there anything in the works to fix the AMT?

Regards,
GtG

[Inyo-Mono]

No kidding.